Social Networking Sites: Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Internet

There are many people who use social networking sites in the world, either adults or teenagers especially cell phones. Most of teenagers use a cell phone for text messages. Lenhart (2010) mentions, “88% of cell phone-owning teens text [and] 72% of all teens use text messaging.” Teenagers and adults spend a lot of time to use social networking sites such as YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. They like to identify people who have common interests and identify many sites that they are interested in. Nowadays, social networking sites have become an important thing in peoples ' lives, and they can find many things on it. In fact, social networking sites become more popular than before. In generation X not all people can use social

It is really hard to live without the Internet in this Era because we need to communicate with others. Specially, being a teenager that most of their time is spent on the social networking sites such as Facebook, Tweeter, Instagram, etc. Lenhart (2010) shows that 73% of online teens have used a social networking sits especially in Facebook and MySpace. Certainly, A big advantage of the social networking sites, is keeping in touch with friends and family by posting your pictures and comment on their pictures and page. According to Farrington (n.d), mentions that Lauren B. who are 17 years old use social net working sites to chat her friends says, he has a lot of friends at the school and some time he could not talk with them at school, so when he back home, he always chat them online (p.10). Other way to finds people who are far away from us and communicate with them by using social networking sites. Teenagers can find their old friends on Facebook easily if they remember friends’ names, pictures or birthday and they can chat with them. “Protect yourself online” points out, “[Facebook] helps you find old classmates” (2012). Also, many teens use text messaging to communicate with friends who are much closer to them. Actually, social networking sites help to keep people

They can find information easily from the Internet. In addition, social networking sites can provide warning for teens. They are many criminal things happening every day, and people know about it from the media. Also, when the weather has any change or problem the online social network gives advice for people, so they will protect themselves from any rick. Also, teens can know about famous people from the social networking sites, such as Facebook or My Space because they follow farmhouse persons’ account. Some scientists find, that about 4.8 people who use Facebook to tell their followers about their plane “Facebook & your privacy”, 2012). Furthermore, teens know what happen in that person 's life. “Impact of Social Media,” notes that, [about] 52% from teens have commented on a blog.” (n.d, p .1) In facts social networking has big benefit for teens. They can know about the shopping more than people who do not use online program. It will have more knowledge about the prices. In brief, social networking sites make teens more experience and knowledge in their